Choosing among Infrastructure as Code tools requires more than a familiar name: readers need current signals on project health, shipping activity, and openness. For September 2026, ToolVitals records those signals alongside each tool’s score, license label, and GitHub star count.
This ranking includes open/source-visible tools only and orders them by ToolVitals score from highest to lowest; equal scores are ordered by health and then shipping. GitHub stars are included as context only and do not determine placement.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ProxmoxVE Scripts | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 98 | 29680 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Meshery | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 98 | 97 | 11882 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Pulumi | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 97 | 25734 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Atmos | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 97 | 96 | 1383 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Terragrunt | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 96 | 95 | 9856 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Crossplane | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 95 | 12110 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | OpenTofu | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 96 | 95 | 30302 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Terrateam | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 94 | 95 | 1285 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | pyinfra | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 91 | 6014 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | DeployWhisper | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 87 | 87 | 10 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | Stelvio | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 82 | 79 | 281 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Terramate | OSI-approved OSS | MPL-2.0 | 74 | 77 | 3633 | 75 | 🟢 Good |
| 13 | SST | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 32 | 17 | 26327 | 26 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 14 | ops0-cli | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 31 | 16 | 75 | 25 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 15 | Monokle | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 8 | 0 | 2142 | 5 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 16 | Kubefirst | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 7 | 0 | 2059 | 4 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 17 | OpenQRM Community | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-2.0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 18 | NginxConfig | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 0 | 0 | 28250 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Proxmox VE Scripts ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 98 and a status of 🟢 Excellent. Its health and shipping scores are both 98, and it is labeled OSI-approved OSS with an MIT license. The supplied project description identifies it as Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition); its 29,680 GitHub stars add context but are not part of the ranking.
Meshery ranks second at 98 and is also 🟢 Excellent. Its health score is 98 and shipping score 97, placing it below Proxmox VE Scripts among the two score-98 tools with health 98. ToolVitals labels Meshery OSI-approved OSS under Apache-2.0, while its supplied description calls it the cloud native manager. Its 11,882 GitHub stars are context only.
Pulumi ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 97 and 🟢 Excellent status, supported by health and shipping scores of 97 each. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS with an Apache-2.0 license, and its supplied description presents it as Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Its 25,734 GitHub stars are context only; its shipping score of 97 puts it ahead of Atmos, which has a shipping score of 96.
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